David Boree
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I don't think at this point she is because she's super insular. She's very uncomfortable talking to people. She's going to break out of her shell once she gets to San Francisco. Now, I don't know. She may have talked to some of them about this stuff, but I really don't think she is at this point. I don't think she's comfortable enough doing that. Yeah.
I don't think at this point she is because she's super insular. She's very uncomfortable talking to people. She's going to break out of her shell once she gets to San Francisco. Now, I don't know. She may have talked to some of them about this stuff, but I really don't think she is at this point. I don't think she's comfortable enough doing that. Yeah.
So she also does an internship at the software giant Oracle. So at this point, you've got this young lady who's got a lot of potential, you know? A real career as well. Yeah. The start of a very real career. That's a great starting resume for like a 22-year-old. Yeah. Now, at this point, she's torn. Should she go get a graduate degree, right?
So she also does an internship at the software giant Oracle. So at this point, you've got this young lady who's got a lot of potential, you know? A real career as well. Yeah. The start of a very real career. That's a great starting resume for like a 22-year-old. Yeah. Now, at this point, she's torn. Should she go get a graduate degree, right?
So she also does an internship at the software giant Oracle. So at this point, you've got this young lady who's got a lot of potential, you know? A real career as well. Yeah. The start of a very real career. That's a great starting resume for like a 22-year-old. Yeah. Now, at this point, she's torn. Should she go get a graduate degree, right?
Or should she jump right into the tech industry, you know? And she worries that like if she waits to get a graduate degree, this will delay her making a positive impact on the existential risk caused by AI and it'll be too late. The singularity will happen already, you know? At this point, she's still a big, a fawning fan of Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Or should she jump right into the tech industry, you know? And she worries that like if she waits to get a graduate degree, this will delay her making a positive impact on the existential risk caused by AI and it'll be too late. The singularity will happen already, you know? At this point, she's still a big, a fawning fan of Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Or should she jump right into the tech industry, you know? And she worries that like if she waits to get a graduate degree, this will delay her making a positive impact on the existential risk caused by AI and it'll be too late. The singularity will happen already, you know? At this point, she's still a big, a fawning fan of Eliezer Yudkowsky.
And the highest ranking woman at Yudkowsky's organization, Miri, is a lady named Susan Salomon. Susan gives a public invitation to the online community to pitch ideas for the best way to improve the ultimate quality of the singleton that these people believe is inevitable. In other words, hey, give us your ideas for how to make the inevitable AI god nice, right?
And the highest ranking woman at Yudkowsky's organization, Miri, is a lady named Susan Salomon. Susan gives a public invitation to the online community to pitch ideas for the best way to improve the ultimate quality of the singleton that these people believe is inevitable. In other words, hey, give us your ideas for how to make the inevitable AI god nice, right?
And the highest ranking woman at Yudkowsky's organization, Miri, is a lady named Susan Salomon. Susan gives a public invitation to the online community to pitch ideas for the best way to improve the ultimate quality of the singleton that these people believe is inevitable. In other words, hey, give us your ideas for how to make the inevitable AI god nice, right?
Here's what Ziz writes about her response to that. I asked her whether I should try an alter course and do research or continue a fork of my pre-existing life plan, earn to give as a computer engineer, but retrain and try to do research directly instead. At the time, I was planning to go to grad school, and I had an irrational attachment to the idea.
Here's what Ziz writes about her response to that. I asked her whether I should try an alter course and do research or continue a fork of my pre-existing life plan, earn to give as a computer engineer, but retrain and try to do research directly instead. At the time, I was planning to go to grad school, and I had an irrational attachment to the idea.
Here's what Ziz writes about her response to that. I asked her whether I should try an alter course and do research or continue a fork of my pre-existing life plan, earn to give as a computer engineer, but retrain and try to do research directly instead. At the time, I was planning to go to grad school, and I had an irrational attachment to the idea.
She sort of compromised and said I should go to grad school, find a startup co-founder, drop out, and earn to give via startups instead." First off, bad advice, Susan. Bad advice. Just be Steve Jobs. Being Steve Jobs worked for Steve Jobs. Well, and Bill Gates, I guess, to an extent. It doesn't work for most people.
She sort of compromised and said I should go to grad school, find a startup co-founder, drop out, and earn to give via startups instead." First off, bad advice, Susan. Bad advice. Just be Steve Jobs. Being Steve Jobs worked for Steve Jobs. Well, and Bill Gates, I guess, to an extent. It doesn't work for most people.
She sort of compromised and said I should go to grad school, find a startup co-founder, drop out, and earn to give via startups instead." First off, bad advice, Susan. Bad advice. Just be Steve Jobs. Being Steve Jobs worked for Steve Jobs. Well, and Bill Gates, I guess, to an extent. It doesn't work for most people.
Yeah. And most people, these people aren't very original thinkers. Like, yeah, she's just saying like, yeah, go to a Steve Jobs. So Ziz does go to grad school and somewhere around that time in 2014, she attends a lecture by Alicia Yudkowsky on the subject of inadequate equilibria, which is the title of a book that Yudkowsky had wrote about the time.
Yeah. And most people, these people aren't very original thinkers. Like, yeah, she's just saying like, yeah, go to a Steve Jobs. So Ziz does go to grad school and somewhere around that time in 2014, she attends a lecture by Alicia Yudkowsky on the subject of inadequate equilibria, which is the title of a book that Yudkowsky had wrote about the time.
Yeah. And most people, these people aren't very original thinkers. Like, yeah, she's just saying like, yeah, go to a Steve Jobs. So Ziz does go to grad school and somewhere around that time in 2014, she attends a lecture by Alicia Yudkowsky on the subject of inadequate equilibria, which is the title of a book that Yudkowsky had wrote about the time.